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IT is no longer possible, as in earlier days, for the individual researcher to investigate with equal facility all aspects of geography. Inevitably, as in other expanding branches of learning, there is concentration of effort in specialized directions, involving the inevitable risk that the essential unity of the subject and the effective inter-relations of its parts may be impaired. The complete geographer, like the complete historian, does not exist; though many a geographer of the generation which is now passing, by reason of his supposed range of interests, has been expected to qualify for the role.
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FITZGERALD, W. The Geographer as Humanist. Nature 156, 355–357 (1945). https://doi.org/10.1038/156355a0
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